{"id":3211,"date":"2014-06-24T09:39:45","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T23:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=3211"},"modified":"2014-06-24T09:39:45","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T23:39:45","slug":"lifx-raises-12m-in-series-a-funding-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/lifx-raises-12m-in-series-a-funding-round\/","title":{"rendered":"LIFX Raises $12M In Series A Funding Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hollie Slade on Forbes.com:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  LIFX, the company behind the $99 Wi-Fi enabled, multi-color LED light bulbs, announced today that it raised $12M in Series A funding.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lifx.co\/2014\/06\/23\/lifx-raises-series-a-funding\/\">LIFX has partnered up with Sequoia Captial<\/a> to raise the funding, which they&#8217;ll use to build their team and scale up. Sequoia partner Omar Hamoui has also joined their board, and they&#8217;re also opening new offices in California and the UK.<\/p>\n<p>A great Aussie company making it big in the world of the connected home. They&#8217;ve got a great team (I know they&#8217;ve been recruiting some very talented folk from around the country), a great product, and I really think they&#8217;re just getting started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hollie Slade on Forbes.com: LIFX, the company behind the $99 Wi-Fi enabled, multi-color LED light bulbs, announced today&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[94,942,941,943],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}